185917http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/185917/Title of ArticleLeon Legrain, D.D., Sc.D.AuthorGadd, C.J.JournalExpeditionVolume6Issue2193947http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/193947/Season Number03: 1924-1925Media Typeunpublished field reportTitleSeason 3 Field Reporttyped monthly reports from the field collected into one document for season 3AuthorWoolley, Leonard193948http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/193948/Season Number04: 1925-1926Media Typeunpublished field reportTitleSeason 4 Field Reporttyped monthly reports from the field collected into one document for season 4AuthorWoolley, Leonard183487http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/183487/TitleUPM Field Photo numbersfield photos in the Penn Museum archives: these numbers do not always correspond to the British Museum numbers for the same images204064http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204064/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060aPage Number060aTranscription[Page 1]2the only fragment of diorite head - We had some trouble while dividing the objects, which are actually on exhibition and will stay in the show cases for some times - We excepted from the division a few very important copper reliefs, for which we understand that a correspondence is still in progress between the two Museums and which should be reserved to your judgment.The while business was very satisfactory, Mr. Woolley, Hall, Smith and Gadd were all very friendly and I am satisfied to work with them. Thanks to Mr. Woolley, I had good quarters near[Page 1]Neuilly S./Seine3 rue de Chartres July 21.24Dear Dr. Gordon,I am just back from London where I spent about a week. The material from the last year campain [sic] at Ur and Tell el-Obeid has been fairly divided between the two Museums and I hope to your satisfaction. It was my luck to draw some good single pieces like the best panel [?] of six bulls in a copper frame, the small lime stone relief of the lion headed eagle on a bull andProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-060a-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4411204065http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204065/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 060bPage Number060bTranscription[Page 3]3Marble arch. London is awfully crowded - over 700,000 visitors - and expensive just now. Woolley had to call on 17 hotels before he could make reservation.I paid my due respects to the Director of the British Museum Sir Fred Kenyon. He was very gracious and satisfied with the result of the Ur Expedition. I actually witnessed the keen interest excited by the new exhibit. I sincerly [sic] wish we had the same opportunity of show and dispay of plans and coloured reconstructions.Do you not think that a plaster cast of the most important[Page 4]objects left in Bagdad [sic] and London would be most desirable: like the statue of king Entemena and the milking scene, and the copper blade with the gold and lapis handle: I understand that the British Museum is ready to make any cast so long we pay the work.Mr. Woolley wants any member of the expedition to join him in Bagdad [sic] on the 25th of October- The prices of a trip London-Bagdad [sic] over Marseilles Beyrout [sic]- at Cook & Sons - are [British Pound Symbol] 70 or 74 - I have some informations about the necessary kit[?] and prospective troubles-I sail back from Havre July 26th on the \"Suffren\"Yours most sincerelyL. LegrainProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-060b-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4412204066http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204066/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061aPage Number061aTranscription3 rue de chartres Neccily s/ Seine Paris June 29th 24Dear Doctor Gordon. I recieved early last week your letter of June 12th. I certainly enjoy myself and had a pleasant trip. You ought to try it. I saw Mr. Maurice Nachman Friday 27th at the Grand Hotle. His collection is part in Egypt part in Paris. In Egypt he has still a fine line stone group of the IVth Dyn. With inscription-Pyramid style(Kheops)-from Memphis about .50 high-My sketch is precisely from memory-Price about 450.000 Francs-at \"Kelekian 2 rue castiglione private collection-Price $25 or 20.000I called on both, Sheid and Thureau Dangin and mentioned your name and compliments-There is now in the Louvre a department of plasters cast where you can acquire for the Univ Mus. any copy of Sumerian, Babylonian or Assyrian monument you desire. I could not find room in the Safford or Hyde. P. Hotel, but mo2 word of welcome, and cause he will provide for one. I will fly over Tuesday 1st July and spend a few days in London. and write to you as soon as I see the collection and work to be doneYours most sincerelyL. LegrainProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-061a-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagsacquisitions, drawing, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4413204067http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204067/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 061bPage Number061bTranscription[Page 2]2he has an exhibitiona)- a hollow bronze Cupid of the Greco Egyptian period. Arms missing except a piece of the left- fine head. Eyes in gold inlaid- no cleaning attempted, but the metal looks sound. Height 0,50 cent. m- time of Cleopatra? Perhaps originating from Denderah.b)- A basalt bust of a Queen (?) - Saitic Period Headdress: the vulture or hawks wings covering the whole head. The wig has large waves behind that are rather unusual. My sketch is from memory. The price about $(or [British pound symbol]!) 3500. Actual height about 35/40 cent m.[drawing appears on side of page][Page 3]at Bing rue St. Georges Mr. Nahman has on exhibition outside a statue of Ramses II, that you saw in Egypt, a small collection of limestone reliefs and heads very likely originating from Dr. Fisher's Excavation in Memphis and stolen probably by workmen; this is [word crossed out] a personal impression. There are severed heads or portraits, animal heads, an unusual hippopotamus goddess holding one breast.At Feuardent, 4 rue de Louvois - near Bibliotheque Nationale- I saw a remarkable diorite head from Tello- a duplicate of the famous Gudea head with turban lately acquired in a[drawing appears at bottom of page]ProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-061b-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagsacquisitions, drawing, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4414204069http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204069/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063aPage Number063aTranscriptionTHE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMPHILADELPHIAPhiladelphia, Sept. 10. 1924.Dear Doctor Gordon,In your letter of June 12th. 1924 you suggested that while Mr. Woolley was unpacking the Ur collections in the British Museum and would need some help in classifying them, it would be a good plan for me to arrange with the British Museum to put in a while working on these collections. And also that it would be in order then to make a division between the British Museum and this Museum.Accordingly I called on the 1st of July on Mr. Woolley and was introduced by him to Mr. H. Hall, head of the department, and to Mr. Sidney Smith, his assistant. Mr. Gadd, the second assistant, the cuneiform expert of the last Ur Campaign was on his vacation.The collections were scattered in five or six different locals of the British Museum, partly unpacked, partly under repair, partly in the show cases of a temporary exhibition that [word was inserted above text] to open the following week in the lower room (Balawat bronze gates) of the Assyrian section.The unpacked portion included: bronze boss relief bulls, mosaic flowers, bricks, tablets, pottery, two visible not exhibited door sockets.The portion under repair—a) Great Russel Square work shope[phrase underlined] The copper and bronze material was under careful chemical treatment and reconstruction at the hands of three experts. Delicate and oxydized fragments of the bull's head and body, and of the copper covered columns were bathing[arrow hand-drawn to indicate following words should be inserted after \"bronze material\" above] and also drums of the mosaic columns,ProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-063a-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4416204070http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204070/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063bPage Number063bTranscriptionNumeral 2 circled at top center of pagein different vessels before being mounted and fixed with green putty.—b) [phrase underlined]Basement of the British Museum Casts were made of the bull's stone, shell and copper friezes, and of the dairy scene; or the more damaged portions of the bull frieze was restored and completed with painted plaster—c) [phrase underlined]Photographical department—Some of the best pieces: frieze of passing bulls, dairy scene, being photographed—d) [phrase underlined]Second story room opposite the curator's offices: a number of unclassed terra cotta reliefs, seals, shell and stone small pieces.On [word underlined]Exhibition in the lower room (Balawat Bronze Gates)[sketch of layout of exhibition]A—2 Bull's Friezes—stone shell, copper frame—and dairy sceneB—Other damaged portion of the bull stone[word inserted above text] frieze. And a bull copper reliefC—Full boss[word inserted above text] relief reconstructed copper bullD—Embossed copper bull with head in boss[word inserted above text] relief, and other heads from a frieze in a copper frame, and mosaic flowersE—Two sections or drums of the mosaic columns, and the best stone, and terra cotta vessels painted or not. Also some mosaic flowers.Numeral three, circled, written at bottom of page.ProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-063b-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, exhibit L, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4417204071http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204071/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063cPage Number063cTranscriptionNumeral 3 circled at top center of pageTHE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMPHILADELPHIAF—the inscribed historical documents: bricks, barrels, door sockets or alabaster plaques. One missing fragment of the famous Nabuna'id barrel preserved for years in the British Museum has been recovered last year and inserted in the original barrel.G1[numeral 1 is superscript]—The best document from Tell El-Obeid: Gold scarab, diorite foundation tablet, inscription on a vase fragment, lime stone plaque showing eagle on the back of a human headed bull, bronze dagger with lapis lazuli head, and other small monuments in shell, stone, and metal.G2[numeral2 is superscript]—Stone and metal small objects, among which a fine fragment of a diorite head (Gudea period)H1[numeral 1 is superscript]—The best terra cottas[sic] reliefsH2[numeral 2 is superscript]—The best gold and semiprecious stone jewels and necklaces.I—Plans, sections, elevations of the Ur ziggurat.K—[ditto marks under plans, sections, elevations] and water colour reconstruction of the Tel El-Obeid temple,—terrace, gate, and staircase with porch, columns, lions, and bull friezes.[what looks like an ampersand handwritten in center of page]Division of the material—I mentioned your intentions to Mr. Woolley, but as head of the Joint Expedition, Mr. Woolley thought that the division was not incumbent to him—Mr. Hall listened to the request, but leaving for his vacations the next few days, he referred me to Mr. S. Smith. Mr. S. Smith thought the proper man to do the division would be Mr. Gadd, who had been on the field and knew the material.ProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-063c-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagsbricks L, DoF, handwritten, jewelry L, Legrain, reliefs L, ziggurat LOmeka ID4418204072http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204072/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063dPage Number063dTranscriptionNumeral 4 handwritten in center top of pageMr. Gadd being on his vacation, I was advised to come back the following week, when he would return. This is what I did, visiting in the mean time friends in Belgium.The following week, I met Mr. S. Smith and Gadd. Mr. Smith, who had talked it over with Mr. Hall, suggested that certain important pieces like the reconstructed full relief [word bronze crossed out, and the word copper written in above] bull, the flat embossed relief copper bull, should be left out of the actual division, as some correspondence was going on the subject between the two museums.Besides, Mr. Woolley's opinion was that so far as the British Museum has spent time and money on the reconstruction of the bronze bull, this sample ought to remain [word to crossed out] in the British Museum, while a second copy[underlined] just as good of the same bull, but not unpacked, cleaned, or restored, should be sent to the U of P Museum, that would provide for the restoration.The rest of the collection[underlined] 1) as presented in the Exhibition[underlined] cases—2) or preserved in the Second story room[underlined] opposite the curator's office—3) or even partly or not at all unpacked in the basement of the British Museum has been divided in three days work by Mr. Gadd and myself—as best as possible.Two[word underlined] objects of the same type and value being paired[word underlined], we agreed to choose according to the different needs of our respective Museums—or each would choose in turn—Or in case of an unusually desirable or unique piece, we did toss a coin. [In the lot of the Univ. Mus. are the best frieze of 6 lime stone bulls, the pannel[sic] of the eagle on a bull's back, the fragment of a diorite head][brackets inserted by Mr. LeGrain]Each piece attributed to the Univ. Mus. was marked with a pencilled P on the object and on the card index ofhandwritten number 5 circled at center bottom of pageProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-063d-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4419204073http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204073/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 063ePage Number063eTranscriptionnumeral 5 handwritten and circled at top center of pageTHE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMPHILADELPHIAMr. Gadd.1) In that way the objects exhibited[underlined] in A, B (except the copper bull relief), D, E [the heavy glass case could not be lifted; We read the no[o is superscript] as far as possible through the glass—We obtain one drum of a mosaic column)[Legrain inserted the first bracket after the letter E, and ended with a parenthesis instead of a closing bracket] F (some important historical inscriptions), G1[numeral 1 is superscript] (the historical inscription of Tell El-Obeid on a fragment of vase), G2[numeral 2 is superscript], H1[numeral 1 is superscript] (half of the terra cottas) H2[numeral 2 is superscript](half of the Jewels); have been fairly divided.Mr. Gadd has marked the objects attributed to this Museum, on his list and card index. I have marked the objects with a P.2) The same method has been adopted for the objects preserved in the Second story room opposite the Curator's office.3) The objects partly or not at all unpacked in the basement of the British Museum are: the copper bull[underlined] to be cleaned and mounded, some mosaic flowers, and many unimportant plain pottery—We obtain one of two door sockets.This is the best that I was able to do under rather difficult circumstances. I must add that every official of the British Museum was as obliging as possible, and Sir Fr. Kenyon particularly gracious.Yours respectfully devotedL. LegrainProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-063e-1924.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4420204075http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204075/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065aPage Number065aTranscriptionOct. 2nd 1924Dear Dr. GordonOn my way to Bagdad! Everything is all right so far-I arrived in Paris Wednesday afternoon sept. 24th I called at the bank Harris and Morgan, place Vendome, at the messageries maritime to get my ticket; and bought a few articles to complete my kit. The problem is to have enough and not too much. I saw Scheil just back from his vacations and satisfied that I should in turn take a trip to Paradise Lost. Thureau Dangin was not due in Paris before October. I left Paris Monday 29th by the night train for Marseilles where a spent a day Some trouble to find and have my baggage safe in cabin no 187 on board s.s. Lotus! That trouble is a kind of chronicle decease going south. I found in Paris yourProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-065a-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4422204076http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204076/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 065bPage Number065bTranscription[page 3]letter of July 23, 1924 instructing me to call on Mr Woolley and on Sir Frederic Kenyon. It did not reach me in time in Paris and was not sent back to Phila anyhow the proposed division is over now. On board S.S Lotus, I found two letters forwaded by Miss J. McHugh, for which she will please, accept my thanks. She has very wisely answered to Mr Woolley. So far I do remember my conversation with Mr Woolley in London, it was agreed that we should meet in Bagdad Oct. 25th. He gave me the addresses of two hôtels, and some welcome indications how to get there TH Cook and sons and the \"Naim Cy?\" I had the impression that he prefered that we should travel independently, and I have no objection to such a scheme. Maybe I should have confirmed my intention. But you know that the decision came within a short time before sailing - I keep a due account of my - not personal - expensesYours sincerlyL. LegrainWill you please give my best regards to everyone in the museum. I certainly miss them.ProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-065b-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4423204077http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204077/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066aPage Number066aTranscriptionNov 8, 1924 Ur JunctionDear Dr. Gordon,I have been so crowded the first few days here, that I delayed writing. I just received a clipping sent by Miss McHugh, that brings me back to the Museum at once. Dear business: a fine piece of advertising, for which I want to express my best thanks! I left Beyrouth to \"shoot across the desert by day and night in a Cadillac car with 5 people inside and all the luggage tied in the outside. One hour stop in Damascus for lunch. You know the desert by experience and I will not expatiate on it. It is really a unique impression of silent immense nothingness, with a wonderful display of colors, and just a thrill when you[page 2]realize how absolutely lost you may be in stoney sandy plains. Baghdad is not a dream, but a busy Eastern city striving for civilization and full of intrigues. All is mud and mud and mud. I received a most gracious welcome from our queen of Sheba: Miss G.B. I went two days ahead of Woolley and [?Limell?] and put up at the Maude Hotel, the only and very best of the lace. I duly called on Mayor Wilson and on the American consul and was well received. I saw the French consul. Everyone here seems to be infected with the archaeological disease. In a short time the antiquities dealers began to visit and pursue me right in my bed room, talking about Prof. Clay and Mr. Thureau Dangin, and P [?Dhorme?] among the last visitors and heavy buyers. But I have no funds and no inclinations to buy. The only things I wish to buyProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-066a-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4424204078http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204078/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 066bPage Number066bTranscription[Page 3]this year is my own experience and a working knowledge of Arabic. Besides you know how much diplomacy and side questions are here vital next to any scientifical researches. Mr Cooke of the [?awful?] ministery, on Miss GB recommendation was kind enough to take me around on a most interesting visit to the [?Khasimin?] mosque, and to one opium den, and to a real Arab dinner with 12 courses, that nearly killed me, and to a passage in a [?goufflar?] in most antique manner across the Tigris to visit the new University, a beautiful piece of architecture in a palm grove worth of Old Baghdad - we even had tea in a garden. L.C.W. the best and most refined archaeologist as you know, kindly introduced me to Col. [?Tench?] the director of the Baghdad Basra line: one Scotch among so many who rule the place, and a perfect gentleman. He is a great help to our[Page 4]Expedition. Ur junction a lovely spot in the desert! A delegation of Arabs and servants awaited and received us solemnly. At 6 at night we marched toward the Ziggurat of Ur- across the sand and took possession of the camp. The sky was of a clear deep blue. The crescent New Moon and the evening star were in conjunction. What better omina could one wish for. The next morning the tribe came down and the bargaining for labor began in a fair way. Since, work has been very active and the dust is flying around the old Ziggurat attacked on the N.W. flank. Bricks and cones of Ur-Engur, [?Kurigalzu?], Nabonidus are brought in my \"office\", where reed mar, mud plaster, and ancient tiles are conspicuous. I [?seat?] on an empty box, and I am practically eaten up by sand flies and mosquitoes - everybody sleeps in the open court to escape the pest and enjoy the fresh air. We hope for the most startling discoveries. Meanwhile I suscribe yours most devoted L. LegrainProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-066b-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4425204079http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204079/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067aPage Number067aTranscriptionBeyrouth Hotel Continental Oct. 21st 1924Dear Dr. GordonThe trip to Baghdad is proceeding very satisfactorily. I am sailing tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd at 8.30 AM. towards Damascus and the city of thousand and one nights across the desert. Hoping for the best! I did not stop in Egypt but arrived here on Oct. 11th by the Lotus, the same S.S. I boarded in Marseille. She stopped two days in Alexandria, one in Port Said, one in Jaffa.[Page 4] last Sunday by rail and road picking up an automobile at Baghdad. The trip across the Mountain was delightful, and the road just dangerous enough, to give you a thrill. I just begin to like archaeology in the field- the band in the Beyrouth Casino is all right, and the gin and mixed not bad. Limmel is just arrived this Tuesday night, 7 P.M. We spent the day in a convenient automobile ride to [?Djebail?] to visit Montel's excavation. Please give my regards to all and my love to some round about and believe me yours sincerely, L. LegainProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-067a-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4426204080http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204080/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 067bPage Number067bTranscription[Page 2] When on shore in Beyrouth I had the pleasure to find M. Woolley at the Continental. He at once proposed, and I accepted a short side trip to Aleppo while waiting for Mr. Limel due here about the 21st. This of course is a private venture which had nothing to do with the Ur Expedition and the Museum expenses. It proved most agreeable as Mr. W. is a very experienced erudite and charming guide and companion. you have already probably been[Page 3] advised of what he tried to do and buy for the Museum. I only wish you had been here to enjoy our daily visits to the bazaars and the old Arab residences of Aleppo, a real dream of Aladdin and the mysterious lamp - and such a good taste of decoration! But you must be a Jew or an Armenian and Mr. W. in person to be bargaining in that awful fashion usual in the country. I am too honest to do any useful work here. We went back to BeyrouthProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-067b-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4427204081http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204081/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068aPage Number068aTranscriptionUr Junction Archaeological Mission Iraq- Mesopotamia Dec. 12 1924Dear Dr. Gordon Despite all bad rumors of letters being stopped and lost coming to or from Iraq, I hope this will reach you, if not for Christmas at least for the New Year. It is a good season in Scotland. And I send to you and to the Museum staff my best greeting. I have been awfully busy of late, brushing mud from dirty bricks and copying all sort of inscriptions. Thanks to the weather being colder we are [?quit?] from all kind of pests: mosquitoes, sand flies, or common and most obstinate flies. The nights are cold, and there are some splendid sun rises and sun sets the only real beauty of the land. But this has nothing to do with archaeology. The big work is carried round the old Ziggurat tower. I do not know whether you care for plans or not, but a plan is a good guide and L.C.W. hopes to fix this year the four corners- or towers- at the four point of the compass, and[Page 2] at the four angles of the terrace on which rests the Ziggurat. Your know all details from his reports. One particular building or gate on the E. corner, has remarkable architectural features, a central large gate, and two side doors vaulted over, and T shape decorated walls outside. It still an open question whether it was a gate or a tribunal. But since we have courts and supreme courts, why not supreme gates! In Stambul there used to be a sublime gate. The aspect of the building is surprisingly good. The office - or mud room- affected to the cuneiformist - myself in the present case, is mud and bricks all over. I ought like a true Sumerian to walk on my bare feet, with head all shaven and shorn. It is quite the opposite, and my hair grows like the hair of the Bedani- anyhow the office has the aspect of a Museum. In a corner there is a pile of door sockets of old King Ur-Engur. Next come the green serpent, the top of an old [?Kudursa?] sawn in two and inscribed by the vice regentProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-068a-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4428204082http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204082/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1924 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 068bPage Number068bTranscription[Page 3]Sin balatsuiqbi, a governor of Ur, at the time of Ashurbanipal about BC 702. On a shelf there is a line up of 8 clay cones with a long inscription of Warad-Sin a son of the king of Susa, who ruled the place and repaired it, and had his clay cones laid at regular intervals between layers of mud bricks, a jolly good idea to identify a building and perpetrate the name of the builder. I am surprised that you did not think of it while building an extension of the museum. Next come the broken statue of a decent old Semite. It is only a mangled trunk, with no head and only one arm. But on that arm instead of a statue he had his name inscribed [?Da-da ilum?] [c/o] of Sin. He keeps his hands clasped as becomes a good servant. he may have lived about BC 2000. Another remarkable piece, is the copper pole shoe, of a door found in position on the door socket. Both pieces are inscribed to the name of the same king Ur Engur builder of the Ziggurat. Stone reliefs with sculptures, one [?illegible?][Page 4]With all sort of figures and emblems, one colossal mace head- and all sort of inscribed bricks, and cones, not to forget, beads, terra cotta figurines, and vases from a respectable beginning of the season. For the last three weeks I never stopped copying. I begin to get used to the country - many visitors. Dr. Chiera has been here three weeks and always the same sweet visitor you know already for years in the museum. He seems at least to enjoy the place. We had one or two Sundays off to Nasriah the next city (?) across the Euphrates, and to an Arab picnic, in a palm garden on the bank of the river. We had to get across Willow's hedge to reach the water and sea Arabs [?feluga?], sailing up stream at a good pace. At a distance could be heard the creaking noise of the [?nooria?], or the plaintive Arab melody, with beating of the drums- we had only 12 courses. Well, the worst is still to come, and I will be glad to see old Philadelphia again. C.L.W. is clamoring for an answer and for cash. My best regards to you all. Your devoted L. LegrainP.S. I received a very indignant letter and three pamphlets from Dr. H R Hall of the Br. M I will acknowledge in timeProjectCUDate1924AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-068b-1924.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4429204083http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204083/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069aPage Number069aTranscriptionUr- Junction.- Iraq- Jan. 3rd. 1925Dear Dr. Gordon.I beg you would believe wedrank your health in good style on Xmas and Near Year's eve. Despite the distance, the desert and the strenuous work we omitted none of the rites. Turkey, plum pudding and real Scotch wiskey. That is some help to archeology. I am up every day at half past six, and go to bed at half past ten, which is rather a change. I begin to like the eternal dust and mud and eyewitness of this strange country.I could not very much improve on the reports of our eminent director and master mind C. L. Woolley. I am afraid I rather made too much of him, and I lately got in trouble with the Br. Mu. authorities. I hope you did not take too much at heart Dr. Hall's recri- mination. I have received from him a very nice letter and four pamphlets, for which I am very thankful, and the next number of the Museum Journal[Last Page]my Paris address, and I will keep writing while traveling. Dr. Fisher must be very busy in his section, I do not expect to see him in Beishan, and I will not stop in Palestine but sail straight for France.The country around is safe and peaceful in the surrounding of Ur . with some trouble not very far from it. We had a cold spell, and ice one inch thick in the tub left in the court yard- not being too rich in wood and coal, we use the bitumen, recovered in the excavation. We have to thank Naboni dus for this invaluable and unexpensive way of warming up at Ur of the Chaldees. An extra blanket at night is welcome for our windows have only shutters. Rain is not yet over and we wade up to the dig in greasy gum boots. At last, mosquitos and sand flies are dead and we are safe from that pest.We had a good many visitors from Baghdad and Nasriah, English born and natives all very keen on archeology. It is a real comfort - well the war is still on and I hope to resist to the end.[Vertical text added] Please give my kind regards to all and believe me, yours sincerely, L. LegrainProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-069a-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4430204084http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204084/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 069bPage Number069bTranscription[second page]will probably acknoledge his genuine paternity in the Tell El-Obeid \"discovery\".Dr. Ch. has left us after six weeks. Our party is reduced to three, and we feel almost lonely. A sound government always like opposition. I did. The third dynasty of Ur, the Larsa Kings, old man Kurigalzu, the strange ruler with the strange name; Sin balatsu iqbi, and the familiar Nabucho, and Nabonidus have now no secrets for me. I recognize their bricks at a glance even without looking at the text. And all the Arab diggers shout with joy the venerable names of Ur Engur and Ishme Dagan. They are full of contempt for such a recent fellow as Nabonidus, too well known and who moreover brings them no backshish.Despite all the trails of a new field, in a new land, in a difficult mixed expedition, I am rather glad of that new experience under the guidance[Third page]of a most expert differ. I am conscient to have done my best to help him. And you will probably detect some traces of that collaboration - I understand that owing to the money running short, the work will probably stop at the end of January. In that case, I will probably take the long way coming home, and if possible visit Susa, Babylon, Kish and Karkemish before sailing for the new country. I will likely spend a week or more in England and talk the new season over with the Curators of the British Museum, and show them any copy of the new inscriptions.This letter will not reach you before the end of January or even later. It is nearly impossible to receive your answer. But in case you decide to send my any instructions, I will call at the American consul in Baghdad and Beyrouth on my way. You haveProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-069b-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4431204088http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204088/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073aPage Number073aTranscriptionNeuilly S/Seine 3 rue de Chartres May 17th 25 Dear Dr. Gordon I found here last week your letter of April 3rd. Many thanks for your points and the kind dispositions. I lingered on my way back and amply justified your suggestion for enjoying my six weeks vacation. I will cross the channel tomorrow May 18th and call in turn on all the authorities of the British Museum. Since your letter is only a copy of the one addressed to them, they are aware of your intentions, which fact will make it easier for me. I will show to the \"Epigraphists\" my copies of the inscriptions recovered during this campaign and discuss the question of publication. Whoever shall be Woolley's assistant in the next campaign, I feel exactly like you. I am ready to go if I am decided without my personal interference. It is a question of \"high politic\" between the two Museums, and makes life much more acceptable later on. I do not expect Woolley to need my assistance for his exhibition. In which case I am prepared to sailProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-073a-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4435204089http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204089/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 073bPage Number073bTranscription[page 2]from Cherbourg, on S.S. Orca, for New York on June 6th. But I shall know better in a couple of days. -In reply to your second letter of May 5th I called on Mr. R. Haase, 10 rue St. Georges, yesterday May 16th. I saw the head and the statue both originating from [?Tello?[ and dating of about BC 2200 - 2300. The statute is of the \"stumpy sort, head missing- standing figure with clasped hands- some damaged by fire. Probably no beard, hair hanging on the back. Fringed shawl passing over left shoulder. Inscriptions on the back. \"To the god min-dar, for the life of[?Ibi-Lin?] king of Ur, offered by [?Ur-Migrise?] the priest -\"- chips broken off the hands, the left foot and some parts of the surface- Interesting but not very beautiful\" The head- black diorite- Classical type of Gudea, with Wollen cap. No beard, no hair - nose preserved- chip gone of the chin- Small size. You can hold it in your two hands. It is a duplicate- much smaller- of the large, diorite head I saw last year at Mr [? Feuardent Freies?] 4 rue Louvis Paris. This last, I understand is still for sale- There is moreover a complete statue of Gudea, from Tello- same find- with a large inscription, for sale at [?Gejou?], but at an enormous price of [?pound symbol?] 25.000. I have not seen it- I will go and have a look before sailing Westword-Respectfully and Sincerely Yours L. LegrainProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-073b-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagsacquisitions, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4436204091http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204091/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 075Page Number075TranscriptionTHE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM PHILADELPHIASept. 12th. 25Dear Dr. Gordon.All the objects discovered at Ur of the Chaldees, by the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum, during the third campaign _1924-1925_ have been registered in a card catalogue, including the following nos : U.2501 to U.3356. (and perhaps a few more).The photographs taken during the same campaign are kept in a separate catalogue, including the following nos : 301 to 476.Yours sincerly.L. LegrainBoth catalogues are in the possession of Mr C. L. Woolley.ProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-075-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, U.2501, U.3356Omeka ID4438204093http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204093/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 077Page Number077TranscriptionRoma- Hotel Flora Oct. 18.1925Dear Dr Gordon.I left Paris Friday 16th and stopped one day here before sailing Monday evening from Bridisi. I spent the day writing the last pages of my paper for the Atlantic Monthly - The green beautiful lines of the villa Borghese helped me a good deal - I feel sure I will finish life as a Roman Cardinal [?inpetto?]- I wrote the paper once, on board the DeGrasse, but I lacked the peace of body and mind to do anything good. I had to do it over again, and Paris was no rest. I am glad it is over- All here is sun and blue sky - good food and wine. I travelled with an old Scotch man, whose stepmother was housekeeper for Queen Victoria at [?Balmoral?]- Well he spend the winter in Italy, buys Scotch tweeds at Naples cheaper than in Scotland and praises Mussolini! Will you please give my best regards to all in the Museum and belive meYours Sincerely, L. LegrainProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-077-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4440204094http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204094/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078aPage Number078aTranscriptionNov. 15th. 25Dear Dr. Gordon,Despite all the troubles in Syria, I am here all right and passed across the desert without incidents. I landed in Beyrouth Saturday Oct. 31st and left Sunday afternoon Nov. 1st by the Eastern \transport over Homs, Palmyra, Kebeisa, Ramadi, and Bagdad. We were four day on the trip and spent the first night in Tripoli avoiding Damascus and the troubled area. The road along the northern coast is interesting cutting through tunnels along high rocks. Business is lively in every place. Commercial travelers, Swedes, Italian, Levantine trying to outdo each other. White Horse Scotch Whisky advertise in every hotel. Strange isn't it. The mountain track over the Lebanon from Tripoli to Palmyra or rather Homs is very rough, a litter of basalt and volcanic boulders that nobody takes trouble to clear from the way. We had a quiet passage. No armoured car, no soldiers. I stopped at Homs to buy pistachios in the bazaar and no one said a word - Of course you know Palmyra and the gorgeousProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-078a-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4441204095http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204095/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 078bPage Number078bTranscriptiontemple, gates, colonnades, rosy and honey coloured like old ivory. There is a half brand new hotel. But yes we have no hot water. All the turks have arrived and are waiting outside on the desert - good long ride to Kebeisa near Hit where we found in the local khans a first touch of English comfort.In Bagdad I did not omit to present dutifully your respects to Hon. Miss G.B. - Could I ask you to mail at her address a copy of the Mus. Journ. with my account of the Ur Expedi-tion, and another copy to Mr. R.E. Cooke of the Awqaf - Since they are mentioned by name I know that they would like to read it. And if my request may be granted, I should like to have a copy of the Seals catalogue of the museum for the camp library at Ur, useful on the dig. Your two volumes of Miss G.B. were received with gratitude.The two new assistants of Woolley are very nice. You will probably hear more in the report. The first two weeks have been successful. Bronze and stone objects, and statues of Dungi time well repay the first efforts. The supposed palace of Dungi is a rich burying ground, gull of brick built rectangular tomb vaulted over.-I spent two days to visit Ktesiphon, Babylon and Borsippa before reaching Ur-McKay is working for a while in the isle of Bahrein before coming back to Kish. Heavy rain the first part of the month. I just come in time for the fine weather.[Note written vertically on left side of page]I hope the paper I mailed in Rome has arrived safely. Yours sincerely, L. LegrainProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-078b-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4442204096http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204096/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 079aPage Number079aTranscriptionNov. 29th. 1925.Dear Dr. Gordon I hope to arrive in time for Xmas or at least for New Year in true Scotch style. I thank you heartily for the kind thought and the \"saying it\" with music. I am looking forward at the Victrola and the thirty records and the Arab tunes. I am not sure that Woolley quite relish the idea. He is not found of music. I saw in your letter of Nov - 2nd that you had at that date not yet received my letter and ms. mailed from Roma Oct. 18th. I have written again from Bagdad as soon as I was through. My crossing the desert over Tripoli and Palmyra had no special difficulty - In Beyrouth they were exhibiting a selling a photograph of some forty men killed and exposed under guard on one public place of Damascus but I was assured that all was quiet and we had no armed guard with us all theProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-079a-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4443204097http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204097/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1925 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 079bPage Number079bTranscriptionway - But in Bagdad I was assured that the Palmyra road was unsafe and closed. Here more than anywhere else it is hard to know the whole bare truth. Anyhow our driver went back five day later over the same way. I visited Ktesiphon and Babylon on my way to Ur. The new wing was scarcely finished when I arrived. The new assistant and the lady manager are quite good society and we all work for the best. I brought here [?your?] two books of Miss G. Bell presented to the Joint Expedition. They were well received- I paid in Bagdad my first visit to the famous author of the books and delivered your message which was gracefully accepted. You heard perhaps the famous rumor of Dr. Ed Chiera being attached to Angora government as chief of the secret police. The news came from those busy bodies of the League of Geneva and Bagdad was very much disturbed by it. We expect the visit of two good Americans Dr. Albright and Dr. Dougherty successor of Dr. Chiera- I paid a visit to the American Consul in Bagdad and mentioned your intention to finish the HIllah question - deposit of goods by the Nippur expedition- Did you write to him in the same sense? I told it to Woolley too. And we perhaps will go together to see what may[Note written vertically on left side of page] be saved- Yours sincerely, Leon LegrainProjectCUDate1925AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-079b-1925.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4444204103http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204103/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082aPage Number082aTranscriptionFeb. 16th 1926Dear Dr. GordonThe house has just been flooded- we have been through one of the worst storm of the season. Roofs leeking. Everyone busy piling the bedding and rugs and valuable property on the tables. All tubs, basins, empty tins requisitioned to collect the water from roof and walls. The court in a few minutes was a pond - the staff and men dripping wet were jumping about with spades trying with mud and timber to build a dam and stop the on rush of flood outside. All enjoyed the excitement- Now the rain has stopped. The ground is absorbing it slowly. The house look a mess like the following day after battle. We seat where we can, smoking, drinking liquor to get a little warmth, and writing home since work is impossible and there is nothing else to do.Even the Victrola had its share, but we wiped box and records carefully and put on some of the best Jazz to cheer up a bit- Thanks ever so much. It was awfully kind of you to[Note appears vertically written on left side]I heard that Fisher is down with Malaria but is doing betterProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-082a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4450204104http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204104/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082bPage Number082bTranscriptionthink of it. We all do enjoy it so much. And the selection is first class, whoever is responsible for it. The arab tunes are great favorite among the natives, and we feel very much like natives at that- I read half of the books, and take a silent pride in American generosity.I come to your question about Chiera- of course he is a bit bluffing - the fine Italian hand as old Jastrow his master would put it. Last week Miss G. Bell was here on a visit. She took me in her car to Abu Sharein, and two days later on to Warka. I won't insist on the delights of the trip sailing up the big rivers and camal a whole day- but I had the opportunity to ask indirect question - Dr. Ch. has the right of publication of the tablets he excavated at kirkuk! But half of them are property of the Iraq Government and must be returned to the Baghdad Museum after publication. Miss G.B. was going to write to him on the subject. So far he is subject to the common law- I invested some money on the dig and the Iraq Government gave him a sum of money.In case of any big dig in places like Warka or Senkereh, the concessions would never be intrusted to a single man, but to a singleProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-082b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4451204105http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204105/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082cPage Number082cTranscriptionperson, but to a regular staff backed by a strong financial support. In that case they would have to suscribe to a contract of three years of dig at least - and the head of the Expedition ought to be according to her views not the Assyriologue but a trained man preferably an architect - the supervision of Langdon at Kish is not looked favorably upon by her - the Ur expedition at Ur, of the German expedition at Babylon is her ideal. She would with disregard to any [?theoeretic?] claims favor and grant a concession to any nation fulfilling such conditions - she would not object to the germans excavating Warka, where they have dug six months in 1913 under Herr Jordan.I did not show your letter to Woolley as it is confidential, and you know some of my reasons why. But I showed him your first letter where you mention his good relations with the Turkish government. I had heard some remarks in Baghdad, and I do not think that English public here is much in favour of any double game- while you are fighting to provide money forProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-082c-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4452204106http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204106/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 082dPage Number082dTranscriptionPhiladelphia share with Ur Excavation, I do not think it very correct to propose the Museum to undertake another dig. So it stands. I hope to call at Kish and see Langdon when we leave here - the dig will be over after the 6 of March. Packing takes another week. I will travel home probably over the Nairn back to Jerusalem, spend a week or ten days in North Africa, and be in London toward the middle of April. The question of publishing will be discussed. I have a good collection of texts. Woolley asked me in any case to leave it in his hands, he would have a duplicate made by a photographer for his private use and further progress of the dig. It is very natural and useful. At the same time, I do not like too much that all the Philadelphia share of the work should be left in one hand without a definite program of publications since I never saw any copy or translation of the text recovered the two first years. I [?seems?] to much always to give without receiving our due there of honour and helping the next partner to grow fat on it. So I will bring back my copies and talk it over to you after the London interview- Health keeping good, I am happy at the prospect of coming home- Please give my regards to all in the Museum and believe my yours. Sincerely,L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-082d-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4453204108http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204108/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 084aPage Number084aTranscriptionS.S. Pierre Loti March 30th 1926Dear Dr. Gordon I am on my way back to Philadelphia, on a fair way even if I delay the return till May-I left Ur with Woolley and the rest of the staff on March 18th to arrive Thursday 19th in Bagdad, I learned that a Nairn Convoy was leaving the following Monday over Palmyra and Tripoli for Beyrouth in connection with the S.S. Pierre Loti of the Messageries[Back page] and I decided to cross the desert at once. You never know when the desert tracks are open and sure - we were a large party of four cars including a 7 passengers Limousine and Wednesday 24th we arrived at Beyrouth for lunch without the least trouble. The ship was leaving at 4 PM and having no reservations I had to accept a second class berth that was transformed into a first class when on board. So far good luck.My intention is to visit North Africa on my way, but I will cross again from Marseille, which we reach tomorrow April 1st. I will be back in Paris in two weeks- address: 3 rue de Chartres Neuilly-sur-SeineProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-084a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4455204109http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204109/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 084bPage Number084bTranscription[Page 3] Woolley's lecture in Bagdad was fixed on Friday, 26th after which he proposed to visit [?Kamikin?] in company of Mrs. K. K. and to go to Aleppo [?Der es Zor?] on his yearly visit. He will not be back in London before the 20th of April. I propose to be there at the same time. His account in bank being rather low he could give me a letter of credit only for £ 80 and propose to give me another one in London. But I have credit enough from the Museum not to trouble about it. We found Prof. Langdon sick with Jaundice in Bagdad. McKay alone will do the division with Miss G. Bell- Kish this year has given poor results, painted pottery and 175 very old tablets - Langdon talks of leaving Kish for a new dig at [?Lankereh?] (Larsa). He has[Final page] a hard time to find money in England. Prof. R.P. Dougherty who succeeds Clay in Yale - is the annual Prof. of the Amer. School in Bagdad. I heard that with the support of the Yale University e wants to undertake the excavation of Warka (-Erech) the largest ruin in the South. I met him at the American Consul in Bagdad and we drank to his success. Woolley, when I left, was going on a visit to Hillah, Babylon and Kish and was ready to look over all the property left, by the Niffar Expedition in Hillah and to select whatever is good for Ur- In any case that will be a closed case.I am quite satisfied of this year's work and look forward with pleasure for a safe return in the Museum where I understand you prepare a wonderful chow in the New Wing - with friendly regards to all around you. Yours sincerely,L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-084b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4456204110http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204110/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 085Page Number085TranscriptionWESTERN UNION TELEGRAM [various terms of service in header]Received at [stamped location as follows] 3038 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PENN[text of telegram below] 79FY FNM 8FI NEWYORK NY 248P JUNE 2 1926 DIRECTOR UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 68 PHILADELPHIA PENN JUST ARRIVED ON FRANCE WILL REACH PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY LEGRAIN 209PProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-085-1926.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, telegramOmeka ID4457204111http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204111/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 086aPage Number086aTranscriptionFrom Ur Junction to Philadelphia ----- ----- ----- ----- Rp Fr £ $ Baghdad - Telegram Carriage 5Passport - ----- ----- ----- 30Hotel + Carriage ----- ----- 6Lunch ----- ----- ----- ----- 3Nairn transport to Beyrouth ----- ----- 30Luggage ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 5.10Passport tax -+carriage- ----- 8Carriage ----- ----- ----- 6Tripoli Hotel ----- ----- ----- 7Beyrouth Hotel ----- ----- ----- 27S.S. P. Loti to Marseille ----- ----- 31Embarking ----- ----- ----- 25Tip on board ----- ----- ----- 125Marseille: Cab. Luggage. Hotel 95Ticket to London ----- ----- 675Cab.Luggage ----- ----- ----- 70Paris Taxi ----- ----- ----- 18Paris Hotel Modern ----- ----- 170Calais Train- Reservation + Lunch 50Dover-London- Reservation + Tea ----- ----- 3/6London Cab- Porter ----- ----- ----- 5/Thackeray Hotel ----- ----- ----- ----- 12.7/3Porter- Taxi to Victoria Station ----- 5To Paris ----- ----- ----- ----- 3.12/6Taxi Luggage ----- ----- ----- ----- 11Hotel Modern ----- ----- ----- ----- 407 ----- ----- ----- ----- 65 ----- ----- 23.90 ----- ----- ----- ----- 1673 55.75 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 83.3 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 79.651$ = Rp. 2.72 1$ = Fr. 30 1£ = $4.86ProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-086a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagsaccounts, LegrainOmeka ID4458204112http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204112/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 086bPage Number086bTranscriptionReport ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- Fr ----- £ ----- ----- $1st Class Passage on SS France to New York ----- ----- ----- 83.3/3 ----- ----- 79.65 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 225Tips on board and landing + luggage ----- ----- ----- 200 ----- ----- ----- 6.65New York taxi ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 3.50To Philadelphia. Train and luggage ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 6.50Taxi and luggage ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 2.80 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 3.3/3 ----- ----- =15.35 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 339.45Received in Bagdad a letter of credit of £.80 - Rest Excess expenses $339.45Philadelphia- June 7th 1926 L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-086b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagsaccounts, LegrainOmeka ID4459204113http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204113/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087aPage Number087aTranscriptionUniversity Museum Report on the 1925-1926 Campaign at Ur June 8th 1926Dear Dr. GordonOn my way back from Ur Philadelphia, I left Bagdad on March 22nd. Work had stopped at Ur on the 13th and the packing of 46 antiquities cases on the 19th. I went alone with a large convoy of the Nairn County over Palmyra, Tripoli, and Beyrout- Mr. Woolley was delivering a lecture on the 26th on this year campaign and planned to visit Kerkuk and Aleppo- the two assistants Mrs. Whitburn and Mallowan were advised to travel their own way to Aleppo. From Beyrouth the S.S. \"Pierre Loti\" brought me to Marseille on April 1st, a three weeks trip enabled me to visit North Africa from Algiers to Tunis. I arrived in London on April 26th and left on May 9th- I was very well received by Sir Fr. Kenyon, Dr. Hall, Mrs. S. Smith and Gadd. We talked over the plan of publication of the Ur Excavation. Vol. I on Tell El Obeid is almost ready- Vol. II. will describe the Ziggurat of Ur. The first volume of Cuneiform Texts from Ur will include all the Building Inscriptions. In a free discussion between Smith, Gadd, and myself, we agreed about 5 points, which were drafted and handed over to Dr. Hall for further use: a)- The number of texts collected during the four campaigns at Ur is sufficient to make a volume of \"Building Inscriptions\". b)- This will be a join Volume by Smith, Gadd, and Legrain c)- Transliteration, transcription and minimum notes will accompany the reproduction of the cuneiform Texts. d)- Photographs of the most important Texts will be added to handcopies[Page 1]ProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-087a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4460204114http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204114/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 087bPage Number087bTranscriptione)- The form and size of paper recommanded are the same as used in the exiting collection: 'The Cuneiform Texts of the British Museum\". I could not meet Mr. Woolley, who did not reach London as early as intended. The second week, the general strike made it a necessity to leave London as soon as possible. The letter of credit of £.80 which he gave me in Bagdad, helped up to London. For the rest of the journey I drew on my private letter from the University Museum, as shown in the annexed balance account.I sailed from Havre May 26th on the SS France, due in New York on June 2nd, and arrived in Philadelphia on June 4th.Mr. Woolley's monthly reports of the Excavations have proved how satisfactory was the work done, while discovering he proper house of the Moon Goddess- all the new inscriptions have been copied day by day and translated- Texts and transcriptions are classed in chronological order. The British Museum Assyriologists and myself have agreed to exchange for control, our respective portion of the work in the forecoming volume of texts, as soon as each is satisfied with his translations.The Catalogue of Objects discovered in the present campaign 1925-1926, includes the Numbers Ur 6000 to 6977. The new photographs form a series Ns 501 to 700.Yours very sincerely,L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-087b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4461204115http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204115/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 088aPage Number088aTranscriptionOct. 18 1926Dear Dr. Gordon,Please find here annexed a copy of my summary inventory of the Babylonian Antiquities stored in Room no 44 of the University Museum. There are 68 trays of tablets from Nippur a third of which has been cleaned and could be sent upstairs to be registered. Other interesting objects identified are 1) A bronze pin with lapis lazuli head, discovered Dec. 11 1894 (III Exp. Photo 365) 2) A small clay cone of king Enlil-bani of Isin (IVth Exp.) Inscription unpublished. 3) A cast of a marble tablet of Naram Sin original perhaps in Constple - (IV Exp. Photo no 27) Inscription unpublished.ProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-088a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, tablets LOmeka ID4462204116http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204116/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 2 - Page: 088bPage Number088bTranscription4) Two bricks of Lugal nig-ba a [patesi] of Nippur - (IVth Exp. Photo 236-237) incorrectly published as Lugal surzu. 5) Four bricks of Naram-Sin not yet exhibited. 6) The first door socket of Shargani-sharri published in O.B.I. ph I. no 1 in 1893) not registered (?)Among the negatives left by the four Nippur expeditions three are interesting as showing 1) A more complete inscription of the Entemena vase (Published in OBI. no 115-117 - Published anew in PBS. XV no 1) 2) A more complete inscription of the clay cone of Damiq-ilishu (CBS. 9999. Published in PBS. V. 72 and Plate C111). 3) An unpublished (?) inscription of a vase of Gudea (IVth Exp. photo. 51-00).These two Assyrian casts might perhaps be useful for gallery talk. Yours Sincerely, L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F002-088b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagsbricks L, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4463204151http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204151/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036aPage Number036aTranscription<L. LEGRAINUR EXPEDITIONIRAQ>Jan. 18th 1926Dear Miss McHugh, Thanks for your long letter so full of details. Time is passing terribly quick here. Scarcely time to shave and wash for dinner. Work after dinner most of the time up to midnight. As you will see in Woolley's report the dig is quite good and gives us many valuable objects after the wild hunt for Dungi's palace on the South end of the temple area, and finding just a cemetery on the top of presargonic ground, we have moved nearer to the old ziggurat. This time we have uncovered the shrine or house of Ningal the wife of moon god. It is a most complete temple with enclosure, gates, court, altars, shrine room, base of statue, steps leading to it, pedestals of many - gone - statues and stelae. No end of statues, stelae, vases, dishes in stone, alabaster, clay, and a lot of tablets which make my despair. I have just time enough to brush, stick together catalogue, inspect and pack away on a ledge, till the final packing in March. Many a day I could not leave my office to runProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-036a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4972204152http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204152/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036bPage Number036bTranscriptionto the dig and cursed apart me all the cuneiform signs of the world. There are over 700 of them. I have copied all the historical inscriptions and arranged them in chronological order on separate leaves. My copies are ready for publication. I have translated them in the same order on another series of leaves and I keep adding new drawings and new translations every day as the dig provides new material- The two books form a useful and really necessary instrument for further researches- Woolley does appreciate it and begins to be anxious for publication. II The more so because the Baghdad museum has begun selling his duplicates to make money. Among them are original pieces. and it seems very silly to spend so much money on the dig , to let afterwards any dealer or amateur get your best pieces before you have time to publish them- I think that Woolley begins to feel the pinch and has been writing official notes on the subject to Miss Bell and to the two museums. IIHe asked me to stop in London in April to discuss the points with Smith and Gadd. In any case I feel I have done my best and will await further developments.When you will receive this letter we will be near the end- Money is more abundant thisProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-036b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4973204153http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204153/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036cPage Number036cTranscription2<L. LEGRAINUR EXPEDITIONIRAQ>year, and W. expect to work till 6th of March. We will leave about the middle of March. I will go straight across the desert to Jerusalem and from there to Tunis and Algier before returning to Marseille Paris and London. You have my Paris address - 3 rue de Chartres, Neuilly sur Seine. We have not yet received the much expected Victrola and the thirty records, but the thought of it has cheered up extremely. It was a kind thought and a good heart who devised the scheme-We had our Xmas dinner in good English style with one turkey, one goose, four ducks, two plum puddings, six bottle of Champagne, one of golden sherry, two of Vermuth and no end of Whisky. Don't print that in the Museum Journal please. I like to leave them under the impression of our hardships-.Another good improvement was the wire netting at the door and windows which keep the flies effectively out. The white ants still pierce the walls hunting for books and paper their favorite food, but we drown them in kerosine.II Have you ever received my paper written on the boat crossing the ocean and mailed from RomeProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-036c-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4974204154http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204154/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036dPage Number036dTranscriptionIt was an article for the North American Review: \"the Atlantic Monthly\". I am rather anxious to know what happened to it. I also wanted to send a copy of the Museum Journal to Miss Bell and to Mr Cooke of the Awqaf. I don't know whether you had time or opportunity to send it- It would certainly be useful for our good name- IIYou know that Woolley has a lady assistant but unfortunately since she broke her collar bone in the middle of December, she has been laid up, slowly recovering and and not able to do more than to grace our mess by her presence.We had the visit of two American professors. Albright from the american school in Jerusalem, and professor Dougherty from Baltimore who succeeds to Dr Chiera as annual professor of the Baghdad branch. The latter with two camels, one dragoman, two mounted policemen is supposed to survey the desert and identify lost cities. He does not talk arabic, but is full of good will. I suspect that he was anxious to settle down in our camp too. But I gave no encouragement to the idea. My last year experience is over sufficient. This is the end of gossips and scandals. How I long to here more from you. I was sorry to hear that Mrs Dam had so much troubles again-. Please thank for my your young assistant Miss G. Bruckner for her Xmas card and give my love to all the staff with a good share for you. Yours Sincerly. L. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-036d-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4975204155http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204155/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037aPage Number037aTranscription<Thackeray Hotel>April 30th 1926Dear Miss Mc Hugh,Your long letter has just arrived, full of news. Thank you. I am afraid I shall not be in time for the opening of the new wing about the middle of May.I have spent a week in London and saw all the officials at the British Museum. Wolley has not yet arrived. Sir Frederic K. was very gracious. He expects W. at the beginning of May. While waisting I will go North and visit friends at Hull.I had a conference with Gadd and Smith about publications. We agreed about six \"recommandations and wrote them down. 1°) There is enough material for one volume including all the building inscriptions (historical) . 2°) It should be a joint publication of Smith, Gadd and myself. 3°) Transliteration, translation and minimum notes should accompany the cuneiform text. 4°) a photograph of the [? most ?] important pieces should be added. 5°) the form of paper recommanded should be the cuneiform Texts of the British museum (for size). 6°) Printing shouldProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-037a-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4976204156http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204156/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 037bPage Number037bTranscriptionbe made in London.Gadd and myself will exchange the copies and translations of texts we made respectively - He the first and 2nd year, myself the 3rd and 4rd - in order to read and check them with the originals wherever they are. and put some unity in the publication.These recommandations have been handed to Dr. Hall (H.E) who is really the keeper of the department and the authority so far as texts are concerned. By all means he must not be ignored. He will foreward his conclusions higher till they reach you.When Woolley arrives he will have his say - Personnally I think the \"joint volume\" is the proper thing - even if my contribution is larger - for all sort of reasons I need not to explain.On my way here I visited North Africa from Algiers to Tunis and enjoyed it very much despite an unusual cold weather - as soon as I have seen Woolley I will go back to France and sail from Havre about the middle of May after visiting my family in Paris and Versailles.I expect you have done wonder in the new wing and I am anxious to see the Ur section - I know you do not spare your work and I am sure of your good taste.My respects to Dr. Gordon, and best regards to allYours sincerlyL. LegrainProjectCUDate1926AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-037b-1926.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4977204124http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204124/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005cPage Number005cTranscriptionDr. George Byron Gordon was the well known Director of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. His sudden death on January 30th has been a shock to his colleagues and friends and the world at large. He was 56 years old. From the effect of a fall, his skull was fractured, and within a few hours he died in the Jefferson Hospital without regaining consciousness [none of his friends or relatives being nearby]. He has been called an Anthropologist, Explorer, Author, Teacher, Archaeologist. We prefer to remember him as the Director of the Museum which he controlled and developed into one of the foremost Scientific Institutions of the Country. He took in it a personal pride and if brought the greatest fame to him. He was at its head for 16 years. We will sum up his scientific career in a few lines. Born in 1870 in Prince Edward Island, Canada, he studied first in the University of South Carolina , took his degree of Dr. of Science at Harvard in 1894, and was director of the University of Harvard Exploration to Central America from 1896 to 1900. Member of the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 he was made Assistant curator of Anthropology in 1904, lectured there three years, 1904-1906, was appointed assistant professor of Anthropology in 1907 and finally Director of the University museum [in 1910]. The same varied interest is shown in his publications. Prehistoric Ruins of Copan, 1896. Researches in the Ulca Valley. Caverns of Copan, 1898. [In the Alaskan Wilderness]. The Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan, 1902. In the Alaskan Wilderness. The Serpent Motive in Ancient Art, 1906. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, 1913. Baalbeck, 1919. Walls of Constantinople, 1921. Ancient London, 1923. Rambles in Old London. But the museum was the larger field, where he developed his best qualities, administrative ability, understanding, fore sight, tactProjectCUDate1927AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-005c-1927.jpgCrowdsource Tagsannotated, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4946204125http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204125/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005dPage Number005dTranscription2sympathy in the difficult task of gathering, arranging, guarding the works of ancient art and presenting them at their best for their human interest and beauty. Never forgetting his beginning as an Americanist, he supported and encouraged several Expeditions in Central, North and South America and Alaska. But his keen interest extended to many other fields also. Particularly as regards the South Seas and Western African regions it was chiefly bu his efforts that important collections were built up which especially in the matter of the decorative and representative arts are of the very first class. The Chinese section in the Charles Curtiss Harrison Hall, was his care and pride, and best expresses his personality. The large frescoes of the Tang Dynasty are the first of their kind exhibited in this country. Day after day the students from art schools find in this room models and inspiration. In the classical fields of [?Crete?], Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and the Mediterranean sections, the Museum had long traditions, which were kept alive by Dr. Gordon and received fresh impulse [?from him?]. The Joint Expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, and the Museum Expedition at Beisan, with their important historical results, are well known to the readers of the American Journal of Archaeology. The first Expedition in which the University Museum joined hands with the British Museum, has already achieved its fifth campaign. Both were strongly advocated by Dr. Gordon. The publication of material from former expeditions in Mesopotamia were not neglected. Over twenty two volumes in the Babylonian section have been published [or are printing] under his Directorship, presenting to the public the choice material from the Nippur collections. There is a growing demand at home and abroad for theProjectCUDate1927AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-005d-1927.jpgCrowdsource Tagsannotated, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4947204126http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204126/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 005ePage Number005eTranscription3 Numbers of the Museum Journal, the Quarterly Magazine which he originated in 1910. The two first pages of the first number of the Journal where he expressed his ideas about: \" A new departure, the growth of the Museum, Reorganization.\" are worth reading. They contain a far sighted program to which the big changes brought about in the world by the war have given a strange consecration. When we realize how leading foreign institutions like the British Museum and the Louvre organize more and more an intelligent and popular service and guidance of the public through their collections, we can only admire how the same program was ripe in the mind of Dr. Gordon as early as 1910. His ambition was a service not only interesting to the specialist but profitable to the public. He kept faithful to it. [<stike> His ambition was a service not only interesting to the specialist but profitable to the public. The last important act of his Directorship was </strike.] The opening in May 1926 of the Eckley Brinton Coxe Junior wing of the Museum, with some of the finest and unique collections from Egypt, Assyria, Ur of the Chaldees, and Beisan, was the last important art of his Directorship.L. LegainFeb 18 1927ProjectCUDate1927AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-005e-1927.jpgCrowdsource Tagsannotated, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4948204157http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204157/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1927 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 038Page Number038Transcription<POSTAL TELEGRAPH - COMMERCIAL CABLES>QUEBEC QUE SEPT 24/27 MCHUGH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM PHILADELPHIA PA BACK MONDAY MORNING SO GLAD LEGRAIN.ProjectCUDate1927AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-038-1927.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, telegraphOmeka ID4978205382http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/205382/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 2 Folder: 2 - Page: 18Page Number18TranscriptionJanuary 26, 1928 Dear Cooke:I have your letter of January 3rd, inquiring about U 2919, U 3108, U 3204, three objects assigned to the Baghdad Museum in the division of antiques from Ur made at the end of the third campaign 1924-1925.(1) U 3108,a white stone celt, is not here. By an agreement with the British Museum we have kept as our share the stela of Ur Nammu and a few duplicate doorsockets, clay cones and bricks. The rest has been returned to London or is in Baghdad.(2) U 2919 and U 3204 are here and, like many other inscribed tablets, have been sent here or to London for study.U 2919, a clay label with Aramaic inscription, is copied and published in the first volume of texts from Ur, printing now in London. The original will be returned to you by the same mail U 3204, a large tablet, balance sheet recording the receipts and issues of wool, is not yet copied, but will be returned to you if you desire it.Both tablets have been registered on the field and assigned to the Baghdad Museum.About the tablet material in general --nearly all unregistered -- I beg to state that it was agreed that it should be sent over to London or here for study and publication, after which fifty percent of the good tablets should be returned to Baghdad. Your sincerely[signed] L. LegrainProjectURDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainLetter AuthorLegrainLetter RecipientCookePenn Archival Box Number2Penn Archival Folder Number2Omeka Title1928-2-18.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, typewrittenOmeka ID2645Media Date26 January 1928204158http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204158/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 039aPage Number039aTranscription68 Bd Cotte, Enghien-les-Bains, S [?]O, France aug. 31.28Dear Miss Mc Hugh.\"We\" have such a glorious time ! But I still miss the museum and the friends .. all of them. Business first. On the boat before landing I wrote to S. Smith, to fix an appointment. I received letter n° 1 dated aug. 14th, rather a dilatory thing.I answered: \"that there was no mistake nor hesitation on our side. The letter of Sir. F. Kenyon of July 17 had been duly received, and the suggestion of another delay considered and not approved. First because the last discoveries had been so well advertized that the Trustees had a legitimate desire for immediate possession of such beautiful objects. Next from one year to the following one it was impossible to keep track of the objects and of their relative value.I received then letter n° 2 dated aug. 20 which fixes the meeting at the end of Sept. -You will realise that it was necessary to insist, and everything will be now smooth and easy.- My last argument was that IProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-039a-1928.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4979204159http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204159/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 039bPage Number039bTranscriptionwas granted two more weeks vacation to make the division.Many thanks for the letters forwarded and the first copy of the Ur texts I ever saw. Both volumes arrived in perfect condition and I need not to feel shy about them. They are nice babies. and thanks to you I am a proud father.Up to the 17 of Sept. I am a free bird enjoy my good time. I am just back from a twelve day trip to Alenson Fougeres, Dinand, Val-André, Jocelyn. St Nazaire - Noirmoutier island - and all the Loire châteaux by the dozen. I saw so many castles, abbayes, cathedrals that I get quite confused. Many charming American visitors at each station. I had no troubles with the engine. Only seven nails and punctures. Darn those very careless Frenchmen. \"We\" do better on the other side.Will you give my best regards and love to all round you. You know !Yours sincerly L. LegrainProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-039b-1928.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4980204160http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204160/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040aPage Number040aTranscription<Thackeray Hotel>Sept. 18. 28 Dear Miss Mc Hugh,As you see I am on the job and not an easy job. I am so glad that I stuck to my guns and would have no further delays.Scarcely arrived I saw Smith and Dr Hall and Gadd, finally Sir Fred. K. Smith suggested that I go slowly over the business and start with the last year collection. He had already made some arrangement and we devided some minor objects. I proposed at once as a principle of division that we make two equal groups of a certain amount of objects and then call one group : [? 1 ?], the second group. 2. The numbers are inscribed on a slip of paper and mixed in a hat and we draw. Both parties are[on the left side of the letter] I dined at Smith's Monday evening . Weather fair and warm. Left the car at Boulogne and miss it, and many other persons and things.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040a-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4981204161http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204161/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040bPage Number040bTranscriptioninterested in making equal lots and fortune decides. This is safer than choosing in turns , where the man who has been arranging the collections knows at once how to select the best; while the new comer does not. This was agreed upon.We next heard about tomb group , and how necessary it would be, to keep such groups together. C.L.W. is the father of the idea. Sir Fr. K. endorsed it to a certain extent. Dr. H.R.H. thinks it is diplomatic to keep a certain amount of groups. G. and S. who have to do the practical work with me think that it is a lot of nonsense and very difficult in practice when you must balance unequal groups. Much easier to put all the seals together, the pots together the copper or stone objects together and divide them.Sir Fr. K. was as usual most cordial and friendly but here too I discovered that post ponement would haveProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040b-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4982204162http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204162/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040cPage Number040cTranscription2been welcome. They simply wish that the beautiful and successful exhibition which attract visitors [shou?] keep on as long as possible. I assured him that his letter of July 17 had been received before my departure on Aug. 1st, and that anyhow the immediate division seemed desirable, the american public been anxious to see the famous and well advertized collection. He [?ageed?] to the point. G. and S. are strongly in favor of the yearly division. It is already a difficult task after two year and it would worst next year. The objects are exposed or kept in various places, upstairs and down stairs or packed away. It takes time, room, and real fatigue to find, unpack and compare them before dividingSo far Smith has been helping in theProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040c-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4983204163http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204163/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040dPage Number040dTranscriptiondivision from last year (5th camp). and we move well but slowly. I feel that the whole week will be spent before I can touch this year collection - and as I do not want to be rushed or to leave the work unfinished I am prepared to cancel my passage on Sept 29 and take a later boat if necessary and I said so, in order that there sould be no surprise or hesitation.I sould not like to do it, but I may be free only Saturday 29th of Sept. In that case I will try to get reservation on the \"Paris\" leaving Oct. 3rd.In two days we divided some pots, small objects, stonepots, offering tables, a few copper and some good seals. To our lot come the blue lapis seal of the wife of [? Aannipadda?] and other lapis seal with golden caps.But the major pieces the plaque relief with a chariot and the complete gaming boat and the gold diadem are still undivided. Everybody is delaying the job.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040d-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4984204164http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204164/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040ePage Number040eTranscription3<Thackeray Hotel>and pushing it over to the next man, and asking Dr H.R.H. [between ?] time to decide as if afraid of taking risks or losing the good piece - You would believe a boxing contest.S. after working for two days announced that he was going next week on his vacation. Dr H. marked a point by inviting us all at dinner on Sept. 25th.Alltogether the business is satisfactory and just what I expected and we are fairly treated, but it will take some time and patience.Tentatively we made two groups of the main objects of this year collection.A) The mosaic stela & The harp with the [bull head: deleted] calf's head in gold with blue beardB) The bull's head in gold (with blue beardProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040e-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4985204165http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204165/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 040fPage Number040fTranscription& The silver bull head & the copper lion head & the little [drawing - scale ? - (artifact: semi-circular volume ?)] box with nice engraving & the sledge with small lions heads, and the donkey. We could [?]oss the the queen's crown on a reconstructed head against a belt of blue lapis with all the small gold animals, branches and pomegranates.This would disposed of the most difficult and precious objects. But Dr H consulted reserves his opinion, and I was told to think it over for the week. I think the groups are as good as possible in a bad case. I will only insist on drawing lots to avoid chosing and feeling sore. You may notice that the famous tomb groupprinciple has been abandoned at once by all as impossible for the main tombs.I was told that W. is leaving next week. He is actually in Bath. I will be glad to see him if he comes to London. But I will not write. I have enough trouble without looking for more.I will write soon. Yours sincerlyL. LegrainRemember me to friends around.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-040f-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4986204166http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204166/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041aPage Number041aTranscription<Thackeray Hotel>Sept. 21. 28Dear Miss Mc Hugh,Work is progressing slowly but well. We divided more gold spears and beads and necklaces. The gold saw falls to our share. I accepted two beautiful vases one of blue lapis, the second of green alabaster against one of black obsidian which Smith wanted badly. I will not insist on detail just now. I want to fix some general points1°) Smith and Gadd are strongly of the opinion that the division must take place every year. Too much trouble with delay and pi[?]ing up. Only W. and accidentally the Director could insist on such an idea, because they have notProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-041a-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4987204167http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204167/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041bPage Number041bTranscriptionto bother with the practical side of the work.2°) Smith asked me when our museum wants the present exhibition here to stop and the packing to begin. (Personnaly he wants the breaking and packing now- while the other party would enjoy protracted delay)I answered that I had no instruction on the point and that this ought to be reserved to the heads of both Museums. So far for the principle. Practically I insinuated that the question was raised for the first time, and that in previous year[s?] I thought that the exhibition stopped about this time. If they want to keep on it is up to them to say so.Meantime Wolley and wife arrived - Friday - and the question was agitated in their presence. S. arguing that the break up, ought to take place now and W. was bound to admit it as reasonable.3°) I suggested also - unofficially - that I thought that our Museum would want the main objects for exhibition purpose, wether they were in our shareProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-041b-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4988204168http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204168/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041cPage Number041cTranscription2<Thackeray Hotel>or not. In the case of the gold wig - Baghdad's property - since the Br. Mu. ordered an electrotype, they could indoubtedlty make two in order to send the original at [?] back to Baghdad where it is wanted. The copy would serve as well in Philadelphia and so avoid further complications.W. admitted at once the opportunity and fair deal of exhibiting the best objects in Phil. as here.4°) I have cancelled my sailing on Saturday Sept 29 and reserved a cabin on \"Paris\" Oct 3rd - incidentally that notably increases the expenses- But I see no possibility of winding up before end of Sept. - The Paris is a faster boat and I won't loose much time5°) We keep making equal lots and drawing for luck and avoiding choosingProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-041c-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4989204169http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204169/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 041dPage Number041dTranscriptionwhich is - I believe - a good system since both partners are interested in making strictly equal lots for fear of loosing.6°) No possible work this saturday I run north to Hull for the week end and will be back Monday.7°) Received a word from R.E. Cooke actually in Glasgow. Ask me to come overImpossible. I will tell you m[?] when back.I congratulated W. and wife on their good fortune - not only to have met - but to have brought back such a splendid collection. W. deserve real credit as an excellent and careful field worker. He prepares a book on Sumerian life. He and wife will both lecture in America next year. He inquired about Miss [?] but I could give him no information. He looks well, happy and very much in demand. I expressed myself freely on the reconstruction of queen Shubad's head. What if it falls to our share !!!Yours sincerlyBest love to all friends.L. LegrainProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-041d-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4990204170http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204170/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042aPage Number042aTranscription<Thackeray Hotel>Thursday Sept. 27. 28Dear Miss Mc HughThe big division is over. Thank God! Our share of the spoils consists of:- The gold bull's head with lapis horns and beard- The ingraved plaque with musician and dancing animals- The queen's head dress as reconstru[?] by Wolley and wife. (Published in Illust [?] Lond N.)- The Bull silver head- The Lion silver head- The semi circular box silver with lion on ram inlaid on lapis- The ostruch gold egg- The fluted gold tumbler [drawing- scale ?- (artifact: fluted tumbler)]- The fluted oval cup gold [drawing - scale ? - (artifact: oval cup)]- The plain gold oval cup [drawing - scale ? - (artifact: oval cup)]NB - All the gold daggers go to Baghdad. London keeps the copper dagger with gold and (reconstructed) silver handle. We have our share of gold spears lances, jewels etc.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-042a-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4991204171http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204171/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 042bPage Number042bTranscription- The gold lamp [drawing - scale ?- (artifact: lamp ?)]- The last year [lime st ?] relief (broken) with chariot- The (half) gaming board with animal engraved(The best of this year goes to BaghdadThe good one from last year ... to London)- The queen's [dress?] of thousand beads *London keeps the inlaid stele the chariot (gold lion head) the harp (calf's head) the gaming board etc * The Director and the three assistants declared that they were satisfied of a friendly and fair division. * Questions of transport, insurance, and packing will come to you. I refused to answer any of them. I just think that it would be useful to fix a date and to cut any further delay.Question of copies and duplicate [?] reproduction of objects either in London or BaghdadQuestion of exhibiting in Phila important pieces property of London (Stela at least).I am now busy making a short inventory of our share.An assistant clerk checks it with me and keeps a copy.Hope to be back in Paris Sunday Sept. 30.Yours trulyL. LegrainProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-042b-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4992204172http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204172/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043aPage Number043aTranscription<Thackeray Hotel>Sept. 28.28Dear Miss Mc HughI received your telegram. Thank you. I am sailing on the \" Paris, from Havre Oct 3rdAll the division is over and I said good bye to all the authorities at the Br Mus. Sir Fr. Kennyon was especially graceful, and I am under the impression that we are all satisfied.- They insist to know when you want the collection sent over.- Sir Fr. K. wonder electrotypes cannot be made as well in U.S.A. as in London.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-043a-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4993204173http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204173/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 043bPage Number043bTranscriptionin which case he would not need detain any object attributed to Phila. of which London should want a duplicateWoolley remarked that the head of queen Shubad is a work of art and property of his wife, which might be lent to the Univ. Mus. and exhibited as such. This is capital argument if you do not want to retain the reconstructed Sumerian head. And who does ?This is all, with best regards and love, till we meet againYours sincerlyL. LegrainNB- Returning the \" [Duke?] Univ. Press \" paper which was addressed to me by evident mistake and ought to go to Dr. J.A. MasonProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-043b-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4994204174http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204174/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044aPage Number044aTranscription< THACKERAY HOTEL GREAT RUSSEL STREET LONDON, W.C. 1> Sept 20 <192>8 Dear Miss Mc. Hugh. The division progresses nicely. Today we attached objects from the 6th campaign actually on exhibition: our share are two head dresses of ladies of the ha[?]em[?] among the jewels of the queen. The seal of queen Shubad goes to the Br. Mu. and we have the seal of king sagpadda and the biggest gold and lapis beads. We have the gold diadem made of [drawing -scale ?- (shape of diamond with pattern and two irregular lines linked to both ends)] and many lovely necklaces. We obtain the diadem of all small gold animals and pomegranates but loose the electrum donkey. We keep the gold adze [drawing - scale ?- (adze handle)] and loose the [drawing - scale ?- lines ?] gold lances. All together we are rather well off. I had to cancel passage on 29th.Yours trulyL.L.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-044a-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4995204175http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204175/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 044bPage Number044bTranscriptionPOST CARD [stamp: London Sept 20 1928 10 15PM]Miss Jane Mc Hugh.University MuseumPhiladelphiaPa.U.S.A.ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-044b-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, miscellaneousOmeka ID4996204176http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204176/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1928 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 045Page Number045Transcription< WESTERN UNION Received at 3038 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn.3 POL 6HM NEW YORK NY 824A OCT 10 1928J MCHUGH UNIVERSITY MUSEUM ALL RIGHT BACK THURSDAY MANY THANKS LEGRAIN 843 A >ProjectCUDate1928AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-045-1928.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, telegramOmeka ID4997204397http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204397/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001aPage Number001aTranscription[handwritten diagonally on upper left is the word File.]Thackeray HotelOpposite the British MuseumGreat Russell StreetLONDON, W.C.1.TELEGRAMS: THACKERAY, LONDONTELEPHONES: MUSEUM 1230-1231July 27 - 29Dear Mr. Jayne.The division is over, and we are both satisfied. We obtain as our share 10/the \"'gold and lapis goat'\" standing in a gold bush, — the leading object in this year exhibition— the Br Mu has the second goat of the same type and not so well preserved and a diadem to make good—20/ A \"'silver harp'\" with the figure of a \"'jumping deer'\". This figure is very interesting. The harp is of a large model, but not so well preserved as \"the silver harp\" [description underlined] with a bull's head with goes to the Br. Mu.30/ The only \"'gold dagger'\" not retained by the Baghdad Museum; against which the Br. Mu. obtains a sceptre andProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-001a-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6419204398http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204398/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001bPage Number001bTranscriptiona gold pin and some odds objects.40/Two \"'inlay plaques\"' and \"'a copper head\"' decorating a harp. The plaques represent early sumerian[sic] figures and the back ground is of blue lapis of the style of the semicircular cosmetic box of the queen.These are the leading objects. Besides are a collection of \"'eight head dresses\"' of \"'ladies of the court\"', with combs, gold bands, crowns, earrings, and chockers[sic]. [the author used brackets around the next section][I notice that all chockers[sic] are made of gold and lapis triangles [sketch: three triangles], and we will have to reconstruct the chocker[sic] of queen Shubad on the same lines.] And many other loose parts of the same head dresses.Some very \"'beautiful seals\"'in lapis, green \"'jadeite\"' stone, \"'shell\"' and \"'diorite\"' [hand-written plus sign] one \"'royal seal\"', and several inscribed seals. Some beautiful alabaster vases. One unique vase [sketch: square vase] divided in four compartments and many other objects of copper and pottery—few silver objects—We left undivided the few remainsProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-001b-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6420204399http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204399/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001cPage Number001cTranscription[number 2 handwritten at top of page]Thackeray HotelOpposite the British MuseumGreat Russell StreetLONDON, W.C.1.TELEGRAMS: THACKERAY, LONDONTELEPHONES: MUSEUM 1230 - 1231of the \"Flood\" levels, on which Mr. W. has based his great argument, till he has decided that he is satisfied with all the evidence. After that we will get our share of it.I insisted on the wish of our Museum to get a fair share of all the undivided uninteresting surplus of pots and small objects for distribution to minor museums in America.Dr. H.R. Hall and Mr. C.J. Gadd helped gracefully through the whole division and will supervise the packing in October.They seem anxious to have the Br. Mu. loaned objects returned at the same time and will write officially about it. I am also under the impression that they should like to have the division take place every year at the end of septembre[sic], when they close the yearly exhibit.ProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-001c-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6421204400http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204400/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 001dPage Number001dTranscriptionI saw Mr. Van Buren and Mrs. J. Dohan this week in London, but I refrained from any comment on the division till I reported to you. The best I could say is that we were both very satisfied.Sir Frederic Kennyon and Dr. Hall expressed themselves in the same manner.Both expressed their wish that they may see you on your next visit to Europe.Yours very sincerelyL. Legrain.ProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-001d-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6422204401http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204401/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 002aPage Number002aTranscription(Tuck's Post Card Date Stamped London July 23 1929)Thackery HotelJuly 23. 293arrived yesterday and saw Dr. Hall and Gadd. The division will be easy enough.-Found Mrs Van Buren, and Mrs Dohan here. I will write later to give detailsYours sincerelyL. Legrain(addressee)Dr. W. JayneDirector of the University Museum Philadelphia Pa U.S.A.ProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-002a-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, Legrain, miscellaneousOmeka ID6423204402http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204402/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 002bPage Number002bTranscriptionFull color post card of the Wester Towers of Westminster Abbeyartist Charles F FlowerProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-002b-1929.jpgCrowdsource TagsLegrain, miscellaneousOmeka ID6424204404http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204404/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1929 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 004aPage Number004aTranscriptionSeptember 9th 1929 Dear Miss MacHugh My expences [sic] during the week. - July 22 to July 27- which I spent in London working at the British Museum on the Ur collections amounted to [British Pound sign] 12.0.6 including Boulogne London and back, load [?] and lodging at the Thackeray Hotel.Very sincerely yours L. LegrainProjectDIDate1929AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-004a-1929.jpgCrowdsource Tagsaccounts, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6426204406http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204406/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 005aPage Number005aTranscription[page 1] Oct 14. 30 Dear Mr. JaneI arrived yesterday night Oct. 13. at London to make the division of the Ur finds, and heard to my great surprise and dismay this Tuesday morning that Dr. H.R. Hall had very suddenly died. The funerals take place Wednesday. A memorial service at St. Mary the Virgin Primrose Hill. Then the body will be cremated. I will assist to the first part of the service.Of course I am, and they are so upset at the Museum, that there isProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-005a-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6427204407http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204407/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 005bPage Number005bTranscription[page 2] no questions of division, at least before Thursday -Gadd left alone, and not being \"keeper\" of the department, felt uneasy about the responsability [sic] of the division. We both called on the Secretary who is acting Director while Sir Frederic Kenyon is travelling in U.S. - He advised us to go ahead with the division, and promised to back Gadd in the improbable case, when the Trustees would raise an objection. We both surveyed the objects still exhibited- apart the objects already reserved to Baghdad, the collection on show has two important metal pieces- one gold dagger and gold objects forming on tomb group, and one well-preserved and engraved silver plate, from a later PersianProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-005b-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6428204408http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204408/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 005cPage Number005cTranscription(letterhead of the Thackery Hotel)2tomb- as Philadelphia received one gold dagger Past year, it seems more natural that they should keep the gold dagger this year- But then the silver cup seems to tempt them very much and they cannot make up their mind. Besides we have a claim because a bronze stag unpacked Past year and supposed to be very bad turns out to be acceptable exhibition objectThe rest includes three skeletons lots of painted and unpainted dolls- lots of painted pottery- some bad stone vases, and mumerousProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-005c-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6429204409http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204409/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 005dPage Number005dTranscriptionclay sealings, of which you have many photographs- I nearly forgot many unseemly pieces of clay or brick from the Pre flood periodI hope I will be able to catch my boat on Oct 22nd from Haire. In case of delay I will cable to let you know.I had good time in France and Belgium, I covered over six thousand miles and nearly saw all my friends-Yours sincerly.L. LegrainProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-005d-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6430204410http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204410/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 006aPage Number006aTranscription[page 1]Mona HouseSutton on Hull Oct. 19. 30Dear Mr. JaneI have to postpone my passage Westward another week. Instead of sailing on the Degreue [?] from Hare [?] on Oct. 22. I will sail on the LeFayette on Oct. 29.As I expected the divisions could not be finished last week. The sudden death of Dr. Hall upset all plans- and then they are really a little slow- First they asked me to come the third week because Dr. Hall was in Germany - and when, he died unexpectedly, they could not for sure work the Tuesday. We burried [sic] him the Wednesday- the Thursday we could work four hours - Friday again Mr. Gadd had something to do with Hall's secretary- the afternoon we worked one hour and half and same Saturday morning- no question of work in the afternoon, so I went north to Yorkshire to visit old friends ofProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-006a-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6431204411http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204411/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1930 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 006bPage Number006bTranscription[page 2]the war, and I will be back Tuesday to finish the division.Baghdad has kept the two best pre [?] blood clay figures. We have two and fragments- we have a fair share of painted and stone vases- The big objects were three: Gold dagger again and gold ornaments kept by London - we have a perfect Persian silver bowl - a heavy copper foundation statuette and stone inscription. I had some trouble to get both- but it is all right now.And I nearly forgot a beaker full of the real mud of the flood depront [?] cuel [?] two complete skeletons.The next are small objects- Trusting that you will enjoy such good news, I feel that my lune [?] has not been lost, even if I nearly lost my temper- but what is the use. My best regards to friends and collegues [sic] all round.Sincerely yours,L. LegrainProjectDIDate1930AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-006b-1930.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6432204133http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204133/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1931 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 016aPage Number016aTranscriptionWritten diagonally across upper left of page: Not acknowledged. [?GMB?]Thackeray HotelOpposite the British MuseumGreat Russell StreetLONDON, W.C.1.TELEGRAMS: THACKERAY, LONDONTELEPHONES: MUSEUM 1230 - 1231August 1st, 1931Dear Mr. Jayne,The work at the British Museum is over. The division is finished, and every one seems satisfied. Of course the material was this year much reduced compared to previous years.We have in our share the large Terracotta figure representing a god holding a sprouting vase, one of the main objects. The rest is the usual amount of clay figurines, seal cylindersProjectCUDate1931AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-016a-1931.jpgCrowdsource Tagsannotated, DoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4954204134http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204134/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1931 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 016bPage Number016bTranscription--including three of the Indian type--copper objects, pottery, beads--and \"the gold wire\" from below water level in front of the Ziggurat..very important according to Mr. C. L. Woolley.The best was the discussion which took place between Smith, Gadd, and myself, on the projected scheme of publication. Six volumes are in hands--including my own on the Third Dynasty tablets actually in the Office in the University Museum--The other tablets are in the British Museum they have been classified by Gadd, and besides those already assigned for work, many more--like the Neo Babylonian and [?Seleucid?] tablets, the mathematicalProjectCUDate1931AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-016b-1931.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, Legrain, publication L, tablets LOmeka ID4955204135http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204135/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1931 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 016cPage Number016cTranscriptionnumeral 2 circled at top of pageThackeray HotelOpposite the British MuseumGreat Russell StreetLONDON, W.C.1.TELEGRAMS: THACKERAY, LONDONTELEPHONES: MUSEUM 1230 - 1231tablets, the 1rst Dyn. and Larsa tablets await the proper scholar who will study and publish them. So any American scholar qualified for that particular work will have a chance.No tablet has so far been assigned to any museum, that will take place after publication. 50% of the good ones published are on principle to go back to Baghdad as property of the Iraq Museum.Besides the authority of the British Museum, from the Director Dr. Hill, to the Keeper of the DepartmentProjectCUDate1931AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-016c-1931.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, Legrain, tablets LOmeka ID4956204136http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204136/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1931 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 016dPage Number016dTranscriptionand his assistant Smith and Gadd, have agreed that your servant will be trusted with the volumes on seals and another on Terra cottas. That much to the good. Your letter on the subject was [?vere?] efficient. There are more details, which I prefer not to put down on writing, and I will reserve them for a talk with you in September.--Mrs Van Buren was here. But I was too late to see her, despite her kind invitation.Miss Moon and her friend, and two young men from New York, are actually in London, and Margaret Moon ask me to send her love--there it is--Please give my best regards to all at the Museum. Yours sincerely,L. Legraine.ProjectCUDate1931AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-016d-1931.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4957204416http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204416/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 011aPage Number011aTranscription[Page 1; right side of page]Sept. 20 1932.Dear Mr. Jayne,The division of the objects found last winter at Ur is over, and I am sure you will like to hear about it. This year it was an easy task. After the Baghdad Museum had taken its share, what was left over, while it would look well enough in other digs, could not compare with the rich spoils from the royal cemetery.The two best objects in the University share are:1. An extraordinary large cylinder [Page 2; left side of page]Woolley is glad that his volumes of archaeology are on a fair way of achievement. I have begun a study of the seal and seal impressions from Ur preserved in the Br-Mu. and it will take some time before I can make out how much work is to be done. They are actually remodelling [sic] several rooms; which does not make easy access to the collections.The fine weather of July and August has turned decidedly into London fog and rain, and vacation over I am glad to have taken to my winter quarters. I saw nobody in Paris, but I will call some time before the end of the year. And I will see Hill tomorrow afternoon at the museum. I hear Glenville - the Egyptologist- is in the States on a Lecture tour.Please remember me to all at the Museum and believe in yours sincerely. L. LegrainProjectDIDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-011a-1932.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6436204417http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204417/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 011bPage Number011bTranscription[page 2- on left side]of massive copper, with an inscription of Nur- Adad [?], one of the Larsa king [sic]. In fact it is the better example out of three. Baghdad has the two others. The inscription is known. The fourth, scarcely legible, but perhaps bearing another text, has fallen to the Br. Mu. part.2.- A curious gaming board in soft diorite where pins were moved from hole to hole. The rest is the usual mixture of cylinder seals, terracotta figure bears, and a few jewels, weights and clay objects, very few pots [?], practically no copper, and no pottery. The catalogue will not be burdened [?] and the registrar will have some rest.I found here Miss M. L. Baker very busy with her water colours and doing well. I spent sometime at the Thackeray Hotel where she has settled, but I have[page 3- on right side]moved lately to the \"White Hall\" [appears underlined] for comfort. But we meet at the Museum.I inquired again about the Ur field catalogues [sic] of 1929-19301930-1931and I was rold that 1929-1930 had been [appears underlined] sent to Philadelphia after April 1931.- Would you please let me know if this is a fact.1930-1931 is still here and will be sent with our share of antiquities before the end of the year. Probably with it, they will send the catalogue [sic] of the last (and 10th) campaign- 1931-1932, which is getting printed.I was friendly-received by Sydney Smith and Gadd, and I do enjoy their society. Woolley is here also, and has taken his quarters at Gray's Inn, while Mrs. W. is recovering in the country. She had a serious illness, the typhoid feverProjectDIDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-011b-1932.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6437204137http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204137/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017aPage Number017aTranscriptionTELEPHONE HOLBORN 2463.TELEGRAPH \"TASTEFUL, LONDON.\"[illustration: emblem for WHITE HALL RESIDENTIAL HOTELS LTD.]WHITE HALLBLOOMSBURY SQUARELONDON. W.C.1Oct. 30. 32.Dear Mr. Jayne,Thanks for your letter. [there is a hand-written bracket in front of the word I, which I have included in my transcription.] [I wish I could tell you when I am coming back. But it is hard to fix a date. I am working as fast as I can, given the local customs and traditions. The British Museum opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 4 p.m., at least for visitors working on the Assyrian collections, and you cannot expect to start quite at 10. Every night the objects are put away carefully and locked, and it takes some time before they can be produced again by the proper assistantProjectCUDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-017a-1932.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4958204138http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204138/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017bPage Number017bTranscription[second page of letter]in charge the next morning. And of course Saturday is almost out of question. The weekend is a British institution.Anyhow they are very graceful to me, and work is progressing very satisfactorily. I first took in hand all the seal impressions on the fragments of clay jar stoppers. Fortunately the share of the Baghdad Museum is still here, and I was able to study and copy every piece before it will be returned. I made over 635 hand drawings, and after classifying them, there is nearly two hundred that have been selected for photographic reproduction. I include in it, the British Museums own collection, and having surveyed our share in the University Museum, I am satisfied that for that part of the work, I am up to the mark.I have started the second part of the work, which is a survey of all the[third page of letter]stone seals of Ur actually in the British Museum. --Baghdad share is unfortunately in Baghdad--Some have a plaster impression along with the stone, and some have none. So I am using plasticine and make my own impression, to be able to read them as I work along. But it is a slower process.When that will be over, I still intend to [??supervise??] the terra cottas of Ur in the Br. Mu. collections. But I need not tarry beyond taking notes and measures, while a good photograph will do justice to the best examples and I can dispense with hand drawings.--Here too the Baghdad lot is out of reach.At night I keep working on the Ur business texts, which are entrusted to University Museum, but of the 2000 which I have sorted as best, registered and classified, I have copied already one third. I brought these copies with me to show to Gadd and Smith, and they were very much interested with the first part which concerns the ritual offeringsProjectCUDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-017b-1932.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4959204139http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204139/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 017cPage Number017cTranscription[fourth page of letter]to the temple of Ur, at the time of Ibi Sis [??not sure of name]. The following part which treats of metals: gold, silver, copper lead etc, promises to be just as rich in details--and there are more parts to come.Woolley has decided to send to the University Museum another consignement[misspelled in text] of tablets of the same time and import just discovered last year. So I will have plenty to do, to bring to terms the Ur publications. But I feel that I am \"out of the rough.\"] [handwritten bracket at end of last sentence] My first contribution will be a study of the seals, from the Royal Cemetery, to appear as a chapter of Wolley's[name misspelled in text] book on the same. But if he is paying for archaeological publications out of the Rockefeller funds, the cuneiform texts incomb. to the Museums, and the Joint Expedition funds.This week I relaxed somewhat, and tendered a little dinner party to the Museum collegues[misspelled in text], and we all enjoyed the event. I will call on Hill--which I have not done yet--next week.Miss M. L. Baker left Friday for Triest and the East, very much thrilled and glad to get warmer.I have a touch of cold which I am [remaining text is written lengthwise of the page]nursing indoor on this very gloomy London Sunday. Yours sincerely My Best regards to all at the Museum L. Legraine.ProjectCUDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-017c-1932.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication L, tablets LOmeka ID4960204140http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204140/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 018aPage Number018aTranscriptionTELEPHONE HOLBORN 2463.TELEGRAPH \"TASTEFUL, LONDON.\"[illustration: emblem for WHITE HALL RESIDENTIAL HOTELS LTD.]WHITE HALLBLOOMSBURY SQUARELONDON. W.C.1Dec. 10. 32Dear Mr. Jayne,I am nearly at the end of my work, at least of what I can do this winter. But winter is decidedly a bad season for work at the British Museum. I am nearly through with a bad cold, and I quit next week. I finished copying over one thousand seal impressions on clay, and about two hundred seals from Ur, the property of the Br. Mu. Besides I looked carefullyProjectCUDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-018a-1932.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4961204141http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204141/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1932 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 018bPage Number018bTranscription[page two of letter]over a good many--seven trays--Ur tablets of the same time and content, as the ones I have in Philadelphia. With the result that they will be packed and sent to our Museum for the convenience of the work--and besides there is a box of Ur tablets, from the last winter, which will be sent unpacked to the Museum, for the same purpose. Plenty of work ahead.I will be in Paris before the 20th, I hope, and will call on Scheil and Thureau Dangin. They wish for contribution to Rev. dAssyrio-logie [??not sure of spelling], and I will probably suggest the reconstructed Ur stela at the Museum.[page three of letter]I had a no[abbreviation for number] of the Gazette des Beaux Arts addressed to you: \"on the \"Archaic Sumerian art\" which is evidently the last word on Ur and the bottom of the land.I booked my passage on the \"Rochambeau\" on Dec. 28th. She is a steady old boat, but slow and takes the Southern trail--Will reach New York, I think, Jan. 7. --Anyhow I am saving a little money.Please give my regards to all at the Museum. Merry Xmas and happy New Year.Yours sincerely,L. LegrainProjectCUDate1932AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-018b-1932.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, tablets LOmeka ID4962204142http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204142/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 019aPage Number019aTranscriptionMK 8/23/33<Telephone Holborn 2463.Telegraph \"Tasteful, London\"White HallBloomsbury SquareLondon WC1[logo of the White Hall Residential Hotels LTD] >Aug. 12. 33 Dear Mr Jayne,The division is over. It did not take much time any how. Odd objects covered one long table. The fragment of the Ur-Nammu stela comes naturally to our share. But it was included in the division and balanced against a little copper statue , and a late copper saucepan. Both parties are satisfied. The rest consists of good painted and red pottery of the Jemdet Nasr level, of copper tools, seals, beads, inlay material, terra cottas, one gold ornament, one inscribed brick, and a number of amulets.ProjectCUDate1933AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-019a-1933.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID4963204143http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204143/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 019bPage Number019bTranscriptionBesides Mr Woolley has put apart for work, a box of seal impressions on clay. That material is still undivided, common property of the three Museums. I understand that Dr Jordan will claim his share after publication. In the same way, twelve trays of tablets of the third Ur Dynasty will be sent to Phila, to be studied and published with the portion already there. I was well received - as usual - by the Director Dr Hill and by curators and friends Sydney Smith and Gadd. Thursday I found Woolley and spent the next to days in his office reading proofs of the chapter on seals, to be part of the larger volume on the cemetery. The volume is nearly finished. The plates are made. The coloured plates are very pleasant. There will be one volume of text and one of plates and every one is anxious to see the new volume out. It is full of informations and fine picture. I had dinner, lunch and tea with all of them in succession and we exausted the subject of publications.There are other causes of trouble in the new attitude of the Iraq Government and press, as I understand. But you will know already by official communication. The prospect of further dig is uncertain. I even met professor Langdon and we had a good talk, while drinking ale a little above 3.2. He was shocked to hear that Prof. Chiera was dead, and also Dougherty which news he heard for the first time. Mr Glenville who lectured last year at Phila, leaves the museum to accept a position of Professor at London University. He wants to be remembered to Mr Gunn.The London fogs have not yet materialised. But I take no chances and gargle with carbolic acid everyProjectCUDate1933AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-019b-1933.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, Legrain, publication L, tablets LOmeka ID4964204144http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204144/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1933 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 019cPage Number019cTranscriptionnight. This is the week of Bank Holidays and the city is very quiet and deserted. I may go South too and visit the coast and Devon before crossing to France. Wolley was interested to hear that the Museum has cleaned silver tubes from Ur, which may be the double pipes or flutes of Shubad's time. He promised to write to you about the question. The tubes are perforated at regular intervals. They are exhibited in the central side case facing the Franklin field. I wonder if there is not a photo of them made by Widdey, after cleaning. I read with interest all news from the States, and expect to find the \"Repeal\" in full-swing when coming home. If they knew what miss. I hope you survive the heat wave in the empty museum and look ahead to find every body rejuvenated after Labour day.Yours very sincerlyL. LegrainProjectCUDate1933AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-019c-1933.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, musical instrumentsOmeka ID4965204422http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204422/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016aPage Number016aTranscription[page 1]AcknowledgedWHITE HALL BLOOMSBURY SQUARE LONDON. W. C. 1July 19. 34Dear Mr. Jayne, The division is over and both parties are satisfied. The main portion of the finds were vases from the deep Jemdet Nasr level- stone vases and painted pottery of the red or three colour type. We got one good example of the last. Also lead cups - four of them - and one lead dish - One stone offering table shell lamps, and small stone lamps. There are the usual beads, few gold trinkets, some good seals, four of five terracottas, and some good stone weights inscribed 5 maneh, 1 maneh etc. I asked that the Museum get half of the \"refuse ' a mass of pots and fragments left outside of the division as uninteresting, but which you may find convenient for gifts all round. There a still a few good inscribed [page 4]me on the \"glacier de geants\" near Chamonix. So hoping for thebest. I hope you enjoy the Summer at the Museum, while everyone is away - Yours sincerely,L. LegrainProjectDIDate1934AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-016a-1934.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6442204423http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204423/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1934 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 016bPage Number016bTranscription[page 2- left side]bricks of a known type, but which are always a valuable asset for exchange or present.A small box of clay fragment with real inscription will be sent [?] to Phila. for study and if necessary to add to the major work done last year.The copper line give use the usual share of axes and egde, knife, needle- one good pin with bull head top - and cups.I had to cross on the 17 because the curators were free only this week - the Director Dr. Hill is away I hope to call again and will try to see him before sailing back. I suppose that the printing of cuneiform texts from Ur- apart from archaeology- will be a task incumbent to the two museums, without any Carnegie contributions.I expect to see Woolley before the 22nd. But he has moved to the country[page 1- right side]at Leckford some 50 m. outside London. So I have to make an appointment.S. Smith and C.J. Gadd are both well and helped gracefully through the business I got a few minutes with Mallowan who expect to start a little dig of his own in the country round Mossul [sic].I saw the No. I, 1 [?] of Iraq- the Miss Bell memorial magazine- Do we subscribe to it. We ought too. They start with valuable material. I like to see it by the side of Syria the French publication.The weather is dry, hot, and lovely according to me, but unusual in this country and the \"natives\" seem to resent it. As soon as I am free I will leave London by road and see a bit of the land up to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.No news or fear of the war but the feeling of security was just the same in July 1914, as the war caughtProjectDIDate1934AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-016b-1934.jpgCrowdsource TagsDoF, handwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6443204424http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204424/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1935 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 017aPage Number017aTranscriptionSt Joseph's Hospital. April 11.35.Dear Mr Jayne -Many thanks for your sympathetical letters. I am in the hands of the Doctors.. and there is still hope. They do their best. But, as you know: it is the survival of the fittest. and I am still fighting.Yes I missed the luncheon at Mrs Mark[?] and I am afraid I will have to use discretion on many luncheons, dinnersProjectDIDate1935AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-017a-1935.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6444204425http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204425/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1935 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 017bPage Number017bTranscriptionand gay parties to be. You certainly heard about \" the devil a monk would be!\" This is henceforth my profession.I hope you enjoy your trip to Central America, and leave behind you the nasty weather we have now. The only good point in my case, is that I escaped it, but at what price!Yours very sincerely. L. LegrainProjectDIDate1935AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-017b-1935.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6445204146http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204146/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1936 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 020bPage Number020bTranscriptionme-and Sir Leonard Woolley was also of this opinion--that you have possibly shifted some of the cat. entries in doing the work, & that this might account for differences.But when I examine the line plates and make a few tests with the numbers shown in the \"Index to the Hand-drawings,\" I find that, for instance, where No. 340 is entered alongside a motif, it is, in the case of four motifs, definitely wrong. I will show you these on a separate sheet. Before checking this index throughout, I should be grateful if you can tell me if these discrepancies are due to changes in numbering made by you in the course of the work, & if so, if you have a list of such changes that you can send me. Of course, I must go to Press with this vol. as soon as possible. You will understand that it is a long & difficult task for anyone who has not studied these impressions in detail, to substitute a right entry for a wrong one. So please forgive me for bothering you.Yours very truly,[??Joan Joshua??]ProjectCUDate1936AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number7Penn Archival Folder Number3Omeka TitlePA-CU-B07-F003-020b-1936.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, Legrain, publication LOmeka ID4967204430http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204430/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1937 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 022aPage Number022aTranscription- 94° in the shade - and a delight full ocean passage, I found here a perfect English climate, storm fog and rain, sunshine and showers. Thank God, there is a fire in the dining room. But the weather man announced [?] more sun in august after the Bank holyday. Please give my regards to the museum staff which has still survived the heat, and believe meYours sincerly L. Legrain[Next page] Rosslyn Lodge Hotel July 31.37 Hampstead. LondonDear Mr Jayne,I am crossing the channel tomorrow after spending a fortnight in London. I am pleased to report a good progress on the printing of the \"Business Documents of the third Ur Dynasty\" which is the third volume of the Ur Texts. It will be as you know a twin volume. The volume of cuneiform Texts is printed and nicely bound, and I received as a gift my first copy. I brought to the Br. Mu. part of the mss [?] of the translations, someProjectDIDate1937AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-022a-1937.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6448204431http://www165.123.244.137/media_item/204431/Media TitleUr Notebook Scan -- 1937 - Box: 10 Folder: 5 - Page: 022bPage Number022bTranscription60 pp. They are already in the hands of the printer, and will be printed on this year budget at a cost of about £ 100. After prolonged interview with Smith and Gadd, I promised to deliver the rest of the mss [?] at the latest on March 1938, reserving only the introduction to be finished and delivered on July 1938. The whole will be imputed on the budget 1938. I called on Mr Torsdyhe the Director of the Br. Mu. who received me very gracefully, and was satisfied with the whole arrangement. I wrote a week ago to Sir Leonard Woolley, who spends the summer near Salisbury, with the hope of seeing him in London, but I have so far received no answer, and I will probably leave London without seeing him. Mr Gunn has moved from his first residence at Boarihill near Oxford to a place in Surrey more agreable to Mrs Gunn, so I gave up the idea of visiting him. I heard that Campbell-Thompson has been appointed as a successor of Ll. Langdon. I hope he is successful in his teaching. But he is rather the type of research Professor, and the two cannot easily be confused or combined, as I realise in my own case. I am sorry that I could not see you before leaving. But the Museum on the eve of vacation time was rather in a turmoil. After the terrible heat of New YorkProjectDIDate1937AuthorLeon LegrainPenn Archival Box Number10Penn Archival Folder Number5Omeka TitlePA-DI-B10-F005-022b-1937.jpgCrowdsource Tagshandwritten, LegrainOmeka ID6449